Insights

  • Views on Bond Liquidity, Data and Automation

    As the buy-side trader seeks to aggregate a multitude of pre-trade liquidity sources, trading protocols, and execution venues, many are turning to the execution management system or EMS to gain a competitive edge. In this Q&A, Venky Vemparala, FlexTrade’s Global Product Manager – Fixed Income, who is speaking at FILS, shares his views on the key issues facing the buy-side around data, trading protocols, and automation.

    By Ivy Schmerken June 20, 2023 Insights

  • Navigating Sell-Side Trading in 2023 – How to Intelligently Optimise for Growth

    By Rajiv Shah, Head of Sales, Sell-Side Solutions, EMEA – FlexTrade Systems Spring is always a time I eagerly anticipate. It brings a raft of large-scale conferences, including WBR’s TradeTech Europe, FIX EMEA, and more …

    By Iain Smith June 6, 2023 Insights

  • Prioritizing Change on the Buy-Side Trading Desk

    By Anita Karppi, FlexTrade Systems, SVP – Sales and Business Development – FlexTrade Systems In Spring 2023, the buy-side equities trading community across UK & Europe gathered in Paris, France, at TradeTech Europe to discuss …

    By Iain Smith Insights

  • Consensus Emerges in Industry Reaction to SEC Stock Trading Overhaul

    Industry participants have weighed in on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposals to revamp equity market structure, with many urging the regulator to take an incremental approach, to implement the transparency proposal and drop the controversial auction proposal.

    By Ivy Schmerken May 31, 2023 Insights

  • Overnight Trading Gains Traction

    Overnight trading volumes on Blue Ocean ATS have picked up this year as it expands connectivity to brokers in Asia Pacific and strikes partnerships with order management systems and market data distribution platforms.

    By Ivy Schmerken May 10, 2023 Insights

  • FDC3 Workflows to Unify the Financial Desktop

    Over the past five years, FDC3, which is hosted by FINOS on the GitHub repository, has emerged as an open-source standard for connecting disparate applications on the desktop and creating more efficient workflows for traders.

    By Ivy Schmerken April 12, 2023 Insights

  • Macro-Data Drives Hedge Fund Strategies

    Experts on a recent webinar said that hedge funds and other buy-side trading desks are coping with faster reactions and market reversals in response to data releases and earnings sentiment.

    By Ivy Schmerken March 8, 2023 Homepage Spotlight

  • What’s Next for the Buy-Side Trading Desk?

    One of the major themes for 2023 is the emphasis on multi-asset trading and the focus on efficiency and scalability across regions and countries. In the past, a trader focused on a single asset class such as equities or bonds, whereas today with the migration to electronic trading, the desk can automate workflows and manage executions across all asset classes.

    By Ivy Schmerken February 13, 2023 Insights

  • Top Sell-Side Trends for 2023

    What are the top market structure issues for sell-side firms in 2023? With the new year off to a fast start, brokerage firms are facing a variety of evolving issues that could impact their trading businesses. On the horizon are proposed regulations to reform U.S. equity trading, increased best execution obligations, innovations in ATSs, 24-hour trading, and shortening the settlement cycle to T+1.

    By Ivy Schmerken January 18, 2023 Insights

  • A Year in Review: Top Blogs in 2022

    As we look back on this year, topics such as institutional adoption of digital asset trading, European trading in response to geopolitical risk, and the SEC’s plans to revamp U.S. stock trading rules dominated the headlines. In 2022, we covered those topics and much more including the growing sophistication of AlgoWheel, and the evolution of the buy-side fixed income EMS.

    By Ivy Schmerken December 15, 2022 Insights

  • Auctions Loom Large in SEC’s Equity Market Overhaul

    At the Security Traders Association (STA) 89th Annual National Market Structure Conference held in Washington DC in October, brokerage executives reacted to the concept of auctions as well as other ideas on SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s agenda to revamp equity market structure. But the industry’s top wholesalers and brokerage executives speaking at STA emphasized that the stock market is functioning well for retail investors and cautioned against making a litany of changes that could lead to worse results.

    By Ivy Schmerken November 10, 2022 Insights

  • Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit EMEA 2022 – Key Takeaways

    The move to electronify and automate low-touch trading in fixed income is gathering pace. A recent survey from WBR found that 60% of respondents said they use auto-execution protocols offered on trading platforms, up from …

    By Iain Smith October 20, 2022 Insights